'Midnight in Paris' | 2011

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Plot: Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) reevaluates his life and his relationship with his fiancée while in Paris for their wedding. Remarkably, he's able to travel back in time each night to the 1920s, interacting with luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and more. Time period traveled to: 1920s Method of time travel: A car, a 1920s Peugeot, picks Gil up. There's no discernible time-travel transition.

Plot: Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) reevaluates his life and his relationship with his fiancée while in Paris for their wedding. Remarkably, he's able to travel back in time each night to the 1920s, interacting with luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and more. Time period traveled to: 1920s Method of time travel: A car, a 1920s Peugeot, picks Gil up. There's no discernible time-travel transition. (Cannes Film Festival / EPA)

Plot: Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) reevaluates his life and his relationship with his fiancée while in Paris for their wedding. Remarkably, he's able to travel back in time each night to the 1920s, interacting with luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and more. Time period traveled to: 1920s Method of time travel: A car, a 1920s Peugeot, picks Gil up. There's no discernible time-travel transition.